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The  Call  of  the 

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By  Henry  Harrison  Brown 


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The  Call  of  The 

Twentieth 

Century 


delivered  at  new 
thought  conven- 
tion IN  ST.  LOUIS 
OCTOBER    2  6.    19  04 


STANDARD   PRESS,   BERKELEY,   CAL. 


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Pref, 


ace 


These  addresses  were  well  received.  THey  were  care- 
fully prepared.  They  contain  thoughts  to  which  I 
desire  to  give  a  wider  circulation.  I  believe  them 
an  important  incentive  to  the  unfolding  human 
Consciousness  and  Conscience. 

I  have  the  faith  that  all  the  members  of  the  Federa- 
tion who  so  kindly  elected  me  its  President,  and 
New  Thought  people  generally,  will  be  glad  to  see 
them  in  this  form. 

As  an  evidence  of  the  Love  I  bear  to,  and  the  appre- 
ciation I  have  for,  the  Federation  and  the  Principle 
for  which  it  stands,  and  because  of  the  importance 
which  I  think  it  has  in  the  development  of  the  race, 
I  dedicate  to  it  this  little  volume. 
Future  years  will  show  the  great  good  that  this  body 
of  men  and  women,  who  meet  in  Love  and  Truth  to 
inspire,  encourage  and  assist  each  other,  are  doing. 
The  New  Thought  is  the  one  movement  for  which 
all  past  movements  have  been.  It  is  doing  much  by 
the  mere  Suggestion  of  its  existence,  but  still  greater 
is  the  good  it  is  unconsciously  doing  by  the  most 
potent  power  of  the  Thought  it  radiate^  and  the 
Love  which  inspires  its  Thought. 
Trusting  the  All-Good  to  make  these  addresses  im- 
portant factors  in  swelling  the  ^^Call"  and  in  hasten- 
ing the  ^^Emancipation,"  I  add  them  lovingly  to  the 
great  trend  of  public  sentiment  that  is  now  so  in- 
creasing that  its  argosies  of  Thought  fill  every  sea 
of  literature,  bearing  treasures  richer  than  the  silks 
of  the  Orient  or  the  pearls  of  India. 
In  Truth  and  Love  I  desire  this  Emancipation  for 
you  all.  Henry  Harrison  Brown. 


As  Mr  Brown  was  on  a  tour  when  this  book  was 
printedt  and  as  he  was  unable  to  correct  the  proof, 
before  gfoing:  to  press,  se^ngr^  typographical  errors 
crept  in*         J?  A^,.,^    (^.^-v^c^O^     *^^    Cca^  9 


1 


The  Call  of  the  Twentieth  Century 


Delivered   at    New    Thought    Conveixtion    in 
St.  Louis,  Odlober  26,  1904. 


In  the  Evolution  of  Life  each  century  has  left  some 
distinctive  mark  upon  the  race.  The  student  as 
easily  realizes  epochs  in  human  history  as  he  does 
in  the  geological  life  of  the  earth.  These  epochs  be- 
gin in  twilight  and  overlap  each  other.  I  can  now 
simply  note  the  gift  of  the  nineteenth  century  to 
the  twentieth.  That  century  was  the  culmination 
of  an  era  begun  in  previous  ones.  Its  great  contrib- 
ution was  first  the  complete  verifying  and  accept- 
ance of  "The  Law  of  the  Correlation  and  Conserva- 
tion of  Force."  All  energy  is  one.  It  can  neither 
be  created  nor  destroyed,  be  neither  BScreased  nor 
diminished.  This  Energy  may  change  its  form  but 
is  itself  eternal.  In  the  latter  half  of  the  century 
was  enunciated  the  now  almost  universally  ac- 
cepted Principle  of  Evolution.  The  century  was  x)re- 
eminently  a  philosophical  and  scientific  one,  and  all 
tendencies  of  these  were  toward  materialism.  Her- 
bert Spencer  was  its  highest  product  in  these  lines. 
J>n  him  the  philosophy  of  the  past  culminated.  He 
perceived  Unity,  but  reasoned  from  duality.  It  was 
with  him,  Energy  and  something  unknowable.  He 
declares  that  he  cannot  think  of  Spirit  in  terms  of 
matter  nor  of  Consciousness  in  terms  of  energy.  Life 
and  Intelligence  is  something  added  to  his  Unity. 
Thus  while  his  philosophy  is  materialistic  to  the 
mass,  it  is  non-committal  to  himself.  He  represents 
the  fruit  of  the  scientific  and  materialistic  tenden- 


160601 


6  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

cies  of  the  nineteenth  century.  He  is  the  last  of  a 
long  line,  and  distinguished  line,  that  through  the 
study  of  objective  phenomena  have  at  last  brought 
the  human  mind  to  the  understanding  of  Unity. 
From  this  we  have  given  us  the  Affirmation — All  is 
Mind.  Spencer  will  have  no  successor,  for  out  of 
the  old  the  New  is  born.  The  last  student  of  Dual- 
ity has  given  his  voliime  and  closed  the  discussion. 
The  Xew  Century  calls  for  new  men  and  new  themes. 
The  First  century  of  our  «ffi^egan  with  the  recog- 
nition of  Universal  Life,  as  evolved  in  the  Human 
Soul  to  Love.  "God  is  Love.''  "Love  God  and  Love 
your  Brother."  The  NEW  COMMANDMENT  is 
this :  "That  ye  Love  one  another."  Twenty  centuries 
are  a  brief  period  for  the  race  to  learn  that  Force 
has  yielded  to  Love;  that  Thor's  hammer  lies  at  the 
foot  of  the  Cross  of  Christ.  But  it  is  learned.  Never 
before  was  Love  the  ruling  principle  as  even  now 
when  the  sounds  of  tremendous  battles  reverberate^ 
across  the  Pacific  and  echoeck  along  our  California 
coast.  They  once  took  the  echo — "Revenge;"  now 
they  sing — "Arbitration  and  Peace." 
In  the  Evolution  of  God's  though^  from  the  Univer- 
sal, the  individual  must  belfrom  the  Absolute,  the 
Special;  from  the  Unconscious,  the  Self-conscious. 
Truth  is  the  individualization  of  God.  God  is  Love, 
but  Truth  is  Man.  Each  century  has  been  and  will 
be  religious.  But  Fear  that  "peoples  the  dark  inane 
with  spertral  lies"  departs  as  Love  penetrates  the 
systems  man  makes  for  his  worship.  Some  of  the 
old  terror  js  left  us,  its  duality,  the  di-vese,  the  di- 
vided,makOiid  good  and  evil^remain  to  plague  man- 
kind. 

But  truth  is  a  unit.  False  or  true,  is  the  decision 
of  Man  concerning  all  propositions.  Truth  is  the 
Human  expression  of  Unity.  The  Self-conscious 
expression  of  God.     Power  evolves  to  Life,  Life  to 


TWENTIETH  CENTURt  7 

Emotion^  Love  ^SjgiSt  the  out-motion  from  the  Soul 
center^ is  still  homeogeneous.  Love  is  the  same  in 
all  individuals.  Love  evolves  into  Self-conscious 
ness  and  Man  says:  I  AM;  IT  IS.  The  Individual, 
the  Personal^  are  the  only  possible  Human  expres- 
sions. They  come  through  God's  method  of  evolu- 
tion. Man  comes  "as  a  son  of  God/'  to  his  own. 
In  the  past  Love  and  Truth  have  been  divorced; 
each  had  its  organizations  and  votaries;  the  areas 
of  each  have  constaikihgjDeen  encroaching;  each  has 
been  swallowing  the  omer.  Religion  has  been  lost 
in  a  philosophy  called  theology,  and  science  has  been 
struggling  through  philosophy  to  prove  religion 
non-existent.  Love  IS ;  Truth  IS ;  but  both  are  one. 
Science  has  dealt  with  effects  and  religion  with 
cause,  but  Cause  and  Effect  are  inseparable.  On 
the  threshold  of  the  New  century  these  two  expres- 
sions of  Life  are  wed,  no  more  to  separate.  It  is 
no  longer  Science  and  religion,  philosophy  and  wor- 
ship, physics  and  metaphysics,  for  there  is  no  line 
dividing  God  and  man,  cause  and  effect,  love  and 
Truth.  Coming  generations  will  know  only  Unity, 
and  will  name  it  God.  Power,  Life,  Love,  Truth* 
and  man  w^ill  say  of  these — I  AM  IT 


The  field_theology^a(J  is  p^  only  /study  of  the  fu- 
ture ^g^e^empfe^U^Ian  has  studied  the  Effects  of 
God,  and  surmised  the  Cause;  now  he  is  to  .^tudy 
Cause,  and  know  that  all  is  God — Mind. 
New  Thought  people  are  but  a  little  ahead  of  the 
specialists  along  the  old  thought  of  matter.  But 
the  miss  on  their  part  is  the  difference  between  life 
and  death ;  between  time  and  eternity.  Elmer  Gates 
and  Dr.  Anderson  are  pioneers,  beckoning  to  the 
great  College  forces  to  "Come  up  higher."  The  pres- 
ident of  the  scientific  Congress  that  met  in  this  city, 
said  there  was  but  one  science  greater  than  all  those 
they   were   discussing,   namely,   "mentology."     God 


8  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

epitomizes  himself  in  a  Human  Soul.  When  we 
study  Him  there  we  know  all.  "Flower  in  the  cran- 
nied wall  when  I  know  you  root  and  all,  and  all  m 
all,  I  shall  know  what  God  and  Man  is/'  not  be- 
cause the  flower  tells  me,  but  because  I  find  in  it 
only  that  which  I  am,  and  which  I  carry  to  it.  I 
am  ALL!  "Know  Thyself!''  is  the  command  of  Uni- 
ty to  the  Individual  Soul. 

I  am  an  Unfolding  Soul.  In  that  unfoldment  I 
have  begun  to  know  myself  and  I  call  that  knowl- 
edge "New  Thought."  New  Thought  is  neither  a  sci- 
ence nor  a  religion,  for  Priest  of  God,  the  New  Cen- 
tury, has  wed  the  two  and  the  One  is  named — Life. 
I  AM,  means,  I  live,  I  love,  I  think. 
New  Thought  is  the  recognition  that  All  that  was, 
is,  or  shall  be,  is  now,  and  is  in  the  Human  Soul. 
Unity  needs  expression  through  the  Conscious  just 
as  there  has  been  from  all  eternity,  expression 
through  the  Unconscious.  The  one  command  of  God 
to  man  is,  LET  YOUR  LIGHT  SHINE.  The  New 
Thought  is  the  shining  through  expression^  of^  "the 
Light  that  lighteth  every  man  that  cometh  into  the 
world."  New  Thought  is  "not  a  discussion,  a  spec- 
ulation, a  theprv.  an  hypothesis,  it  is  demonstration 
through  livin^iKiie,  of  Truth.  It  is  doing,  and  not 
thinking;  it  is  being  and  not  seeming.  "Doing  the 
will  of  the  Father,"  and  thus  demonstrating  that 
we  are  indeed  children  of  God. 

New  Thought  is  not  the  science  nor  the  religion  of 
Life.  It  is  the  Conscious  living  above  the  limita- 
tions of  sense,  and  partaking  of  the  eternal  life  here 
and  now.  Man  limitless,  may  live  above  the  so- 
called  Laws  of  Nature,  by  becoming  a  LaAV  unto 
himself,  and  realize  Emerson's  wisest  expression, 
"Conscious  Law,  is  King  of  Kings!" 
The  last  step  the  school-men  have  to  take,  in  this 
welding  of  science .^nd.  religion,  is  the  recognition  of 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  9 

the  Unity  of  the  Universe.  The  nineteenth  century 
saw  the  Unity  of  Energy.  Light,  heat  and  electri- 
city, are  one.  Spencer  says  he  cannot  think  of  the 
Ultimate  as  Life.  He  cannot  think  of  Life  as  some- 
thing imported  into  the  unit  of  protoplasm,  and  yet 
he  cannot  think  of  it  as  coexistent  with  the  atom. 
His  real  foundation  is  The  Universe  plus  something. 
His  dynamic  element  of  life  is  the  one  essential  of 
Unity  and  he  leaves  that  out.  The  Call  of  the  twen- 
tieth century  is  a  Unity  that  is  Unity.  Life  is  to 
be  demonstrated  as  a  form  of  Universal  Energy. 
Life  must  be  demonstrated  to  be  one  in  origin,  es- 
sence, and  all  its  essentials,  with  electricity,  heat, 
gravity,  chemical  affinity,  and  whatever  other  form 
of  energy  Man  recognizes.  In  Him  is  all;  as  Life 
He  is  all. 

The  remnant  of  the  special  creation  theory  is  found 
in  the  separation  of  Life,  Love,  and  Thought,  from 
other  forms  of  energy.  Not  till  these  are  all  one, 
as  God  is  one,  will  man  find  secure  foundation  for 
eternal  life. 

Great  as  are  the  discovery  of  the  Law  of  Conserva- 
tion of  Energy,  and  the  principle  of  Evolution,  a 
still  greater  discovery  was  made  at  the  close  of  the 
last  century,  and  was  its  greatest  gift.  A  discov- 
ery that  marks  the  beginning  of  a  new  era,  not  the 
era  of  electricity,  but  the  era  of  Thought.  That 
Greatest  discovery  is  expressed  in  three  words — 
Thought  is  Energy;  Thought  is  Power. 
Telepathy  is  a  common  fact.  No  longer  is  there  or- 
ganic, and  inorganic;  no  longer  matter  a^  spirit; 
no  longer  is  there  space  and  time;  for  Thought  is 
God  manifest  in  Flesh,  and  to  Him  all  these  are 
naught.  Thought  was  made  flesh  and  dwelt  in  man. 
I  have  no  less  authority  than  Prof.  Drummond  for 
translating  Wor(^>;^_^n  the  beginning  was  Thought 
and  thought  was  witFGod,''  »j»^n  eJoimV^rTTsperai 


10  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

jtlmiigbt)  Read  it  thus,  and  see  how  it  illuminates 
Life.  Man  is  materialized  thought. 
The  century  was  born  like  Minerva,  full  grown,  and 
for  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the  human  intel- 
lect, the  dual  manifestations  of  human  life  find  com- 
mon ground.  The  Meditation  of  the  Orient  and  the 
scientific  spirit  of  the  Occident  are  one  in  a  com- 
mon Afiirmation — Thought  is  power. 
The  Twentieth  century  calls  us  to  complete  the  work 
begun  by  Jesus  in  the  first.  "I  and  my  Father  are 
one/'  is  the  Realization  of  Unity.  It  is  the  blend- 
ing of  Father  and  Child  in  conscious  expression,  as 
from  all  eternity  they  have  been  one  in  unconscious 
expression.  We  are  called  to  the  fulfillment  of  the 
prophecy  in  an  angePs  song:  "Peace  on  earth  among 
men  of  good  will."  "Come  up  higher,"  cries  the  Uni- 
versal to  the  Individual.  "Come  up  and  through 
Conscious  Thought  be  master  of  disease  and  death." 
The  call  is  heard.  Millions  are  responding.  This 
convention  is  a  union  of  those  who  have  heard.  Nine- 
teen centuries  ago  there  was  a  meeting  in  a  small 
upper  room.  The  Spirit  was  outpoured.  Realiza- 
tion was  there !  From  that  meeting  so  insignificant 
whence  baptized  and  illumined  ones  called  Chris- 
tians, went  forth,  through  the  dual  forces  of  Love 
and  Truth,  earth  has  heard  the  name  of  Jesus  ut- 
tered by  those  who  bless  through  love,  and  those 
who  bring  ultimate  blessing  through  the  sword. 
Twenty  centuries  God  and  Man  have  waited  for  the 
present  realization.  This  present  meeting  holds 
the  promise  of  fulfillment,  and  shall  be  to  convey 
^^^^^^^^all  that  that  early  meeting  has  been  to  past  gener- 
-^'"''^ations.  "The  Savior  that  was  to  come,"  has  come 
and  his  name  is  Unity. 

The  new  century  looked  upon  the  world  of  human- 
ity just  emerging  from  the  swaddling  clothes  of  du- 
ality.   Yes,  in  presence  of  this  wonnerful  Exposition 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY 11 

I  dare  to  proclaim,  that  Man  ii\all  this  wonderful 
manifestation  of  science  and  art  is,  yet  in  the  long 
clothes  of  babyhood.  Thus  far  he  has  only  been  try- 
ing to  catch  the  sunbeams  of  that  which  is  not  him- 
self. He  is  now  just  beginning  to  know  himself  as 
power,  and  to  realize  that  what  God  has  done  in 
the  universal,  Man,  his  son,  can  do  through  special 
creation.  Man  is  not  a  special  creation,  but  he  is 
a  special  creator. 

Man  toys  today  with  good  and  evil,  church  and 
school,  science  and  religion,  matter  and  spirit,  sa- 
cred and  secular,  God  and  man,  life  and  death,  at- 
traction and  repulsion,  and  a  long  catalogue  of  illu- 
sions that,  like  the  beliefs  of  children  in  fairies*  and 
brownies,  are  soon  to  be  discarded.  Then  will  the 
manhood  of  the  race  come.  It  will  see  only  good  and 
life  and  love  and  truth,  and  from  these  it  will  build 
its  own  world  on  grander,  more  beautiful  scale  than 
God  without  Man  has  done.  We  live  in  a  world  God 
made,  Man  has  been  remaking  it,  and  yet  it  shall 
be  a  world  that  Man  altogether  controls,  for  God 
who  gave  him  at  birth,  dominion,  will  leave  him  to 
enjoy  tlw/world  eternally  which  like  his  Father  has 
been  created  out  of  Thought. 

I  am — What? — All  God  is,  or  I  could  not  be.  What 
he  does  as  absolute  creator,  I  am  to  do  as  special  cre- 
ator. What  he  is  in  Principle,  I  am  to  be  in  detail. 
I  am  Spirit!  I  am  divine!  I  am  unfolding  my  divin- 
ity. As  fast  as  I  unfold  I  become  Man,  because  hu- 
man. I  Enfold  all  the  past,  I  encompass  all  the  fu- 
ture, and  all  that  can  be,  I  am  in  possibility,  and  in 
possession  now. 

I  am  all  this  because  God  is  first  of  all  Power,  and 
is  in  me  as  power.  He  is  Omnipotent.  Again,  I 
am  Life  for  God  is  Life,  and  He  is  in  me.  I  am  wis- 
dom, for  God  is  wisdom  and  He  is  in  me.  God  is 
Love,  and  I  am  Love,  for  I  am  God  manifest.    I  am 


12  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

Thought  and  Thought  is  the  Omnipotence,  the  Life, 
the  Love  of  God,  transformed  into  Human  expres- 
sion. As  thought  I  am  an  Individual  expression  of 
God  and  all  God  is  behind  my  thought,  that  I,  man, 
express. 

I  LET  Thought  express  itself,  and  Lo!  cities  spar- 
ing and  point  their  spires  of  faith  to  heaven. '^  I  am 
thought,  and  I  impose  upon  external  nature  my 
Thought,  and  call  it  natural  law,  and  I  work  under 
that  law. 

Because  thought  controls^  I  send  fine  vibrations 
through  the  space  about  me,  wireless  messages,  by  a 
messenger  I  call  electricity  because  I  do  not  know 
who  he  is,  and  I  vainly  think  he  is  the  same  I  call 
Lightning,  when  he  is  only  a  relative  of  his,  as  the 
C  on  the  piano  is  a  relative  of  G. 
And  science  grows  arrogant  and  makes  the  most 
colossal  assumption  it  was  ever  in  man  to  make — 
one  that  marks  the  downfall  of  all  the  cob  houses 
of  speculation.  That  colossal  assumption  is:  "All 
is  Electricity."  Electricity  is  the  last  idol  of  civil- 
ized man.*^  All  is  not  electricity.  But  Electricity 
is,  like  Thought,  a  manifestation  of  the  One.  Can 
Electricity  and  Thought  be  correlated — transfused 
into  each  other?  I  will  not  try  to  answer.  Both 
are  One  in  the  Universal  Energy,  and  since  Energy 
is  one,  I  believe  that  Man  will  convert  his  thought 
into  other  forms  at  will,  just  as  he  is  now  able  to 
transform  other  modes  of  motion.  We  can  change 
a  higher  into  a  lower  pitch  or  reduce  the  potential 
of  any  power^so  man  may  transmute  his  thought 
into  any  form  of  vibration  he  may  wish.  I  see  no 
reason,  since  I  am  All,  why  I  may  not  from  myself 
radiate  electricity  from  the  dynamo  of  my  Soul, 
just  as  is  done  now  from  the  Universal  dynamo  of 
God.  < 

Telepathy  grounds  us  in  the  consciousness  that  we 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  13 

are  in  reality  but  centers  of  energy,  Intelligence,  of 
Love  and  of  Truth  in  the  One;  that  through  us  as 
centers  as  much  as  we  desire  of  the  current  of  Infin- 
ity may  find  conscious  expression.  This  fact  dis- 
solves in  Truth  the  scientific  themes  as  Cleopatra's 
pearl  was  dissolved  in  ancient  wine.  There  is  left 
only  "the  One  who  inhabiteth  eternity"  expressing 
Itself,  as  the  Human  Soul.  I  am  as  Conscious  Law 
that  which  I  think  I  am,  and  since  Thought  is  crea- 
tive, I  live  in  the  world  I  think  into  existence.  The 
real  world  of  imagination,  the  sub-conscious  world 
of  Mind. 

The  wireless  message  of  health  passes  from  the 
Human  dynamo  in  St.  Louis  to  the  bed  of  pain  in 
the  distant  city,  the  Soul  awakens  to  its  knowledge 
of  self  as  Life,  Power  and  Health.  From  this 
thought  Rich  Health  blooms  where  before  was  pain 
and  weakness.  Mind  is  all,  and  Conscious  mind  is 
director  of  that  which  is  still  in  the  Unconscious. 
This  is  the  most  mighty  perception  of  Truth  man 
has  yet  received:  The  Conscious  directs  the  expres- 
sion of  the  Unconscious.  Conscious  directs  the  God 
in  the  Soul  in  its  objective  manifestation.  From  this 
we  know  that  the  present  wonders  of  electricity  will 
yet  place  before  the  more  glorious  materializations 
of  Mind  as  the  candle  of  our  fathers  pales  in  the 
electric  glare. 

Ideas  are  man's  possessions.  The  wonders  of  yon- 
der Exposition  are  but  materialized  Ideas  through 
Human  brains  and  Human  hands.  Sun  and  star, 
flower,  bird  and  Man  are  but  the  materialization  of 
ideas  in  the  Mind  of  God.  Without  hands  God 
wrought  these  marvels.  As  His  son  I  have  all  the 
Father  possesses.  Why  should  I  not  from  myself 
project  to  the  objective  the  ideas  which  I  am? 
O  sunj  flying  with  attendant  worlds,  ye  are  but 
thoughts  of  God  manifest  to  human  consciousness! 


14  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

O  rock  and  tree,  singing  bird  and  blooming  rose,  ye 
are  but  God's  thought  in  time  and  space  made  mani- 
fest. But  greater  than  ye  are  the  thoughts  of  God 
in  Man,  for  to  him  ye  are  subject,  as  clay  to  hand 
of  potter.  He  molds  you  to  his  will,  but  lo,  still 
greater  are  the  marvels  of  mind.  Thought  is  power ; 
thought  is  creative;  thought  materializes  to  my  de- 
sire in  flesh  and  blood.  As  God  materializes  his 
thoughts,  so  will  his  son's  ideas  take  shape  and 
form,i^s  worlds  and  plants  take  shape  from  the  One 
Over-Soul.  I  have  but  to  LET  the  God-in-me  work 
as  it  works  outside  me,  to  carry  out  my  will,  and  a 
world  shall  grow  about  me  as  under  God's  direct 
thought  this  one  grew  for  me. 

The  grand  dreams  of  human  imagination,  ^'without 
sound  of  hammer"  or  without  tool  or  material  save 
the  Omnipotent  Substance,  shall  find  objective 
expression  in  more  glorious  cities  than  that  in  the 
vision  of  John  the  revelator. 

"My  Father  worketh  hitherto,  and  I  work."  Prin- 
ciples are  eternal.  As  God  builds  so  I,  his  son, 
build.  I  have  but  to  know  my  power.  The  twen- 
tieth century  calls  upon  Man  to  Know  himself  as 
the  bodying  forth  of  God,  and  to  live,  act  and  create 
as  God  acts  and  creates,  and  thus  to  leave  behind 
him  the  animal  and  Windeed  the  God  he  is.  Out  of 
the  centaur  the  Human  will  be  completely  born  when 
the  next  century  makes  its  call.  Now  it  is  a  call  to 
Man  to  come  forth  and  no  longer  as  part  beast 
struggle  with  environment  that  belongs  to  brute, 
but  to  cast  off  the  swaddling  clothes  of  creative 
power  and  as  Man  rule  in  the  world  made  for  him 
until  he  learns  his  power  to  build  a  better  for  him- 
self. 

Ideas  are  centers  in  the  Absolute  Energy.  Like  all 
centers,  they  rotate  till  they  condense  Infinite  Sub- 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  15 

stance,  so  as  to  be  visible  to  objective  vision.  Ideas 
control  the  world.  They  are  the  only  world  in  which 
men  live.  I  am  that  which  I  think  I  am,  because 
I  think  in  ideas,  and  the  ideal  controls  my  expres- 
sion.   Thus  ideas  take  form. 

Just  as  the  astronomer  tells  what  he  sees,  and  rea- 
sons therefrom,  so  I  tell  what  I  see,  and  state  all 
my  deductions  from  facts. 

One  of  "NOW  Folk  is  the  most  remarkable  tele- 
pathist  of  whom  J  hav^  known.  I  hmi^  choii^  a 
blank  card  from  a  lot  of  similar  ones.  A  friend 
made  a  private  mark  upon  one  side.  I  then  held 
it  with  the  unmarked  side  before  my  friend  and 
asked  him  to  see  upon  it  the  photograph  of  a  cer- 
tain person.  At  last  he  said,  "I  see  him.''  He  cre- 
ated the  picture  there  through  concentration.  The 
card  was  then  shuffled  with  twenty  others,  and  the 
pack  was  placed  in  his  hand,  with  the  request  that 
he  pick  out  the  photograph.  He  did  so.  He  did  u 
many  times.  This  card  has  been  kept  by  stranger? 
for  months  and  then  placed  among  others  so  like 
itself  that  no  one  could  distinguish  it,  and  picked 
out  because  he  saw  the  face  upon  it.  He  mentally 
photographed  a  picture  upon  a  card,  and  this  card 
was  shuffled  with  many  othe^jand  placed  in  t]ie 
hands  of  another  sensitive,  aS3Sjfe  found  it  without 
difficulty.  When  asked  to  draw  the  outline  of  the 
picture  upon  it  with  pencil,  he  traced  exactly  the 
outline  the  first  had  photographed. 
This  demonstrates  the  permanency  of  thought-forms, 
and  shows  that  we  have  in  our  thought  creative 
power.  This  is  the  Franklin  kite  of  Thought  crea- 
tion, and  when  the  century  closes  we  shall  know 
how  to  make  these  forms  more  distinctly  material- 
ized without  the  basis  of  so-called  matter  upon 
which  to  build,  or  we  shall  so  refine  our  bodies  that 


16  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

they  will  be  one  with  the  more  etherial  forms  of  our 
so-called  imagination,  but  which  are  indeed  the  real 
forms  in  the  real  Human  life. 

I  have  in  these  mind-created  pictures  a  prophecy 
of  the  coming  man,  who  will  see  without  eyes  and 
hear  without  ears  and  communicate  without  visible 
means — the  Man  who  has  through  belief  begun  to 
live  the  Eternal  Life  here  and  now. 
Already  we  reflect  in  body  our  mental  pictures  of 
health  or  disease.  The  world  is  only  our  larger 
body ;  mastery  of  physical  body  leads  to  the  mastery 
of  the  larger  body,  termed  environment.  Where 
shall  I,  a  center  in  the  One,  stop?  I  am  limitless. 
"He  that  believeth  shall  be  saved.''  All  Affirmations 
fall  off  the  mind  of  an  unbeliever  as  hailstones  from 
a  battleship.  We  are  either  God's  children  or  we 
are  not.  If  not,  then  I  am  limited.  If  we  are,  then 
we  are  as  limitless  as  God  himself,  and,  no  matter 
what  we  sincerely  desire,  it  is  done  by  us,  and  unto 
us,  in  the  objective  life  by  the  life  that  has  Its  Being 
in  us. 

I  am  a  Thought,  an  Idea  of  God,  and  that  Idea  is 
perfect  even  as  my  Father  is  perfect.  I  am  subjec 
tively  perfect,  and  that  perfection  is  unfolding  itself 
into  objective  expression.  All  eternity  will  be  re- 
quired for  the  expression  of  that  perfection  which  I 
am.  I  am  an  immortal  child  of  God,  and  am  NOW 
living  the  one  only  life  of  man,  that  of  Self  Con- 
sciousness, and  I  am  coming  each  flay  more  into  the 
realization  of  myself  as  Love  and  Law. 
Life  from  itself  has  builded  in  me  an  organism, 
and  has  thus  become  aware  of  its  Self -creative 
power.  If  I  can  materalize  flesh,  the  highest  pos- 
sible vibration  in  so-called  matter,  I  can  create  any 
of  the  lesser  forms.  I  am  the  ultimate  of  Evolution, 
for  my  body  allows  perfect  expression  of  my 
thought.    As  a  Human  Soul,  through  incarnation  F 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  17 

am  expressing  daily  my  perception  of  God,  and  as 
he  creates  in  the  sub-conscious  my  body  and  its 
environment,  I  am  learning,  by  seeing  Him  work, 
how  to  become  myself  the  creator  of  environment 
at  will. 

Millions  are  today  healed  by  thought.  Assisted  by 
the  thought  of  others,  they  are  building  bodies  1o 
their  ideal  of  health,  and  bringing  environment  into 
their  idea|^  of  beauty  and  completeness. 
Under  the  Law  of  Absolute  creation  I  have  uncon- 
sciously builded  my  body.  Now,  under  the  Law  of 
Individual  special  creation,  I  have  rebuilt  to  my 
will.  The  call  is  still.  "Come  higher  and  become 
conscious  creator  of  environment^"  jKot  from  wood 
and  stone  is  one  to  build,  but  from  Myself,  just  as  I 
have  builded  my  body  from  myself.  Man  has  made 
the  wilderness  to  blossom  by  imitating  the  process 
of  his  Father.  Now,  when  I  learn  my  powers,  I  have 
but  to  speak  the  word  and  my  servant  is  healed, 
and  the  desert  blooms.  The  waters  flow  and  the 
rose  blossoms,  not  because  man  irrigates,  but  be- 
cause Man  thinks.  No  matter,  O  Man,  what  your 
desires,  think  long  enough,  think  strong  enough, 
think  with  faith  enough,  and  the  tree  shall  be 
removed  from  its  place  and  be  planted  at  thy  com- 
mand, for  "the  Son  of  Man  hath  power  on  earth  to 
forgive  sins"  and  to  straighten  out  the  crooked  ways 
of  nature  by  the  same  Thought-force  that  mad'3 
nature. 

Since  /  am  as  I  think  I  arriy  I  have  heretofore  lived 
the  slave  of  conditions  and  subject  of  environment 
because  God  and  I  were  two.  But  now,  no  longer 
separated,  the  prodigal  has  arisen  and  come  home 
to  the  Father  and  in  Unity  found  Power,  and  in  this 
realization  has  conquered  disease  and  death,  and, 
chanting  "I  and  my  Father  are  one,"  he  has  taken 
heaven  by  violence  and,  planting  its  Love  and  Trut'i 


18  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

upon  earth,  made  all  the  promised  heaven  here  and 
now. 

Thus  the  new  Thought  comes  as  the  long  sought  and 
promised  Savior.  He  always  was  here.  His  name 
iSj  I  Am !  Am  what  ?  Whatever  I  think  I  am !  This 
savior  comes  through  Affirmation  to  redeem  the 
world.  It  comes  to  a  materialized  civilization  to 
spiritualize  it!  It  comes  to  a  cold  and  lifeless 
church  to  bring  the  Living  Christ.  It  comes  to  an 
era  of  frenzied  finance,  to  a  money-mad  people  to 
bring  it  sanity !  It  comes  to  an  industrial  life  that 
grinds  flesh  and  blood  into  bonds  and  stocks,  with 
the  vitalizing  power  of  Brotherhood,  and  bmc^  em- 
ployer and  employed,  capital  and  labor,  imQ  one 
common  bond  of  Truth  and  Love. 
It  comes  to  selfish  social  conditions  to  harmonize 
them,  and  to  our  home  relations  to  purify  them 
through  a  love  that  has  outgrown  sex  and  left  us 
free  from  the  lusts  of  the  flesh  and  ushered  in  the 
purity  of  the  spirit. 

The  New  Thought  is  new  inasmuch  as  it  is  the  first 
time  in  Human  history  that  Man,  as  his  own  and 
present  Savior,  has  proclaimed:  I  AM  GOD  MANI- 
FEST, AND  AS  GOD  I  LIVE ! 
He  now  Affirms:  I  am  power!  I  am  Truth!  I  am 
Love !  I  am  creator !  I  am  the  kingdom  of  Heaven ! 
I  am  life!  I  am  the  immortal  life  and  the  Heaven, 
Hell  and  Death  I  created  with  Matter,  and  all  Evil 
I  now  destroy,  and  I  proclaim:  I  AM  SPIRIT!  I 
live  the  kingdom  of  heaven  here  and  now ! 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY 


OF  THE 

I   UNIVERSITY 

OF 


The   New   Emancipation 

Address  Delivered  at  the  N«ay  Thought 

Convention,  Nevada,  Mo., 

Sept.  26,  1905 


"The  Truth  Shall  Make  You  Free" 

Liberty  is  a  word  of  early  origin.  It  was  born  in 
that  innate  consciousness  of  power  which  demands 
constantly  a  larger  expression.  That  mental  atti- 
tude in  which  arise  the  words  Liberty  and  Freedom 
is  Nature's  patent  right  of  Manhood.  Till  that 
FEELING  was  born  the  animal  had  not  evolved 
into  the  human.  To  the  degree  that  an  individual 
feels  the  need  of  larger  liberty,  to  that  degree  only 
is  he  MAN.  Manhood  and  freedom  are  synonymous. 
Since  ideal  freedom  is  not  attained,  it  is  evidenr  that 
though  Man  is  on  the  way,  he  is  not  here.  Man  is 
coming.  When  he  arrives  he  will  have  sloughed  off 
the  animal  and  will  be  free.  Human  history  is  but 
the  record  of  the  unfolding  of  Man  from  the  brute. 
The  centaur,  the  sphinx,  the  satyr  and  the  faun  are 
the  true  symbols  of  humanity.  Humanity  has 
emerged  at  present  as  far  as  the  head  from  the  ani- 
mal. The  instinct  of  freedom  is  the  instinct  of 
Human  birth. 

The  Indwelling  Intelligence,  the  Indwelling  Human- 
ity, which  is  the  Indwelling  God,  is  through  the  tra- 
vail of  conditions,  is  through  this  birth,  coming  into 
Manhood.  Efforts  toward  Freedom  are  efforts  of 
Man  to  free  himself  from  animal  conditions.  De- 
mand for  Liberty  is  the  expression  of  the  germinal 
God.    They  only  are  free  who  themselves  strike  the 


20  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

blow.  Only  the  growing  of  the  tree  causes  the  leaves 
to  fall  off — pushed  off  from  within.  In  like  manner, 
freedom  comes  from  the  unfolding  of  the  inner  life. 
"I  am  an  unfolding  Soul/'  is  the  Affirmation  of 
Freedom.  Arbitrary  attempts  to  free  another  result 
only  in  another  form  of  enslavement.  Norway  breaks 
the  link  that  holds  her  to  Sweden  only  to  enslave 
herself  to  some  roj^al  family. 

Freedom  does  not  consist  in  outward  forms — does 
not  consist  in  the  definitions  of  yesterday. 
How  much  liberty  has  each  age,  each  people,  each 
individual?  All  they  can  enjoy.  As  much  as  is 
created  within  the  mind.  For  liberty  is  an  ideal 
condition. 

"Man  never  is  but  aiways  to  be  blessed."  What  Nor- 
way now  is  doing,  all  men  are  doing — moving  out 
from  one  limitation  to  their  freedom  into  an  easier 
one,  which  will  ultimately  grow  equally  irksome 
with  the  old.  We  break  old  links  that  we  may  forge 
new  ones,  that  we  may  also  break  them,  and  so  on — 
how  long?    Is  it  forever?    No! 

This  necessity  of  growth  through  creation  and  de- 
struction is  well  illustrated  today  by  the  relations 
of  capital  and  labor.  Capital  felt  an  enslavemenl 
to  labor  and  created  organizations  for  self-protec 
tion,  which  are  a  new  slavery;  and  labor  also  cre- 
ated its  organizations,  in  which  the  individual  is 
enslaved  to  the  organization.  When  all  of  these 
grow  wiser  they  will  create  lighter  fetters.  Why  is 
this  condition  necessary?  Because  neither  the  work 
man  nor  his  employer  can  free  himself  from  himself. 
These  fetters  lie  within  their  thought ;  represent  the 
present  unfoldment  of  Infinite  Wisdom  in  them. 
They  are  enslaved  to  their  ideals,  and  also  freed 
from  old  conditions  by  these  same  ideals. 
Woman  is  remonstrating  against  what  she  terms 
marital  slavery.    Slavery  exists  for  those  for  whom 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  21 

it  is  the  best  and  the  only  condition  in  which  they 
can  in  the  present  live.  It  is  slavery  of  ideas.  When 
ideals  of  self  are  changed  the  slavery  is  outgrown. 
The  woman,  or  man,  who  growls  about  his  marital 
slavery  will  make  others  growl  when  he  gets  out  of 
his  present  conditions  into  a  new  one.  Growling  is 
a  habit. 

Josh  Billings  said:  "He  who  growls  because  he  is 
poor  will  make  you  growl  when  he  becomes  rich!-' 
Slavery,  like  worry,  is  a  mental  habit  to  be  out- 
grown. He  who  recognizes  himself  as  a  slave  to 
another  must  of  necessity  enslave  some  inferior. 
The  woman  who  is  slave  to  husband  enslaves  her 
servant,  and  the  bookkeeper  enslaved  by  his  employer 
enslaves  the  cash-boy.  To  recognize  slavery  is  to 
create  it.  Like  disease,  it  dies  out  when  no  atten- 
tion is  paid  to  it. 

The  slave  is  slave  because  he  does  not  know  his 
power.  He  finds  himself  through  slavery.  The  ear- 
liest prophecy  of  Man  in  that  arboreal  something 
of  the  primeval  world,  was  completely  enslaved  that 
it  might  find  out  that  it  was  Man.  Through  hanger 
he  found  use  of  rock  and  club,  and  freed  himself; 
but  greater  needs  caused  him  to  break,  hammer  and 
polish  stone;  to  melt  ore  and  make  the  bronze,  after 
necessity  had  sent  him  to  the  discovery  of  fire. 
Freer  then,  but  still  the  slave,  and  he  has  gone  on 
unfolding,  till  the  elements,  from  fire  and  water  up 
to  radiant  matter  are  now  his  slaves  and  free  him 
to  a  like  degree  by  making  him  conscious  of  himself. 
Thus  liberty  is  only  man  in  a  larger  expression  of 
those  forces  and  faculties  which  lie  in  that  arboreal 
something-link  between  Man  and  brute.  Liberty  to 
do  what  he  FEELS  he  can  do.  Thus  liberty,  like  all 
human  endeavor,  begins  in  FEELING. 
This  feeling  we  term  desire.  Not  desire  for  any  par- 
ticular thing,  but  desire  for  expression.    That  thing 


22  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

which  is  desired  will  be  determined  by  experience. 
Till  desire  is  awakened,  man  does  not  know  that  he 
is  not  free.  Desire  is  the  recognition  in  conscious- 
nesSj  that  the  soul  is  sufficiently  unfolded  to  press 
against  present  conditions.  The  limitations  must 
give  way,  when  the  soul  has  pushed  long  enough ;  as 
bud  pushes  into  bloom,  soul  pushes  through  what 
we  term  pain,  slavery,  sorrow  and  strife  till  it  awak- 
ens to  consciousness  of  power,  to  will,  to  be  and  to 
do ;  then  all  limitations  give  way  and  we  say  "Free !'' 
Desire  through  necessity  leads  to  action.  Necessity 
is  the  mother  not  only  of  invention,  but  also  of  lib- 
erty. When  man  will  not  endure  he  will  cure. 
But  what  has  thus  ever  limited  the  Soul?  Nothing. 
What  causes  desire?  The  soul's  necessity  of  expres- 
sion. Only  through  expression  can  it  be  itself.  Not 
to  unfold — not  to  express — would  be  to  annihilate 
itself.  To  be,  it  must  unfold.  Desire  is  the  sub- 
consciousness coming  into  conscious  activity. 
Freedom  is  but  the  expression  of  a  new  desire.  The 
cry  for  more  liberty  demonstrates  the  truth  of  the 
development  theory,  of  the  philosophy  of  evolution, 
and  is  Man's  warrant  of  immortality.  This  cry  finds 
utterance  alone  in  the  Human  Soul,  and  is  its 
demand  to  be  freed  from  animal  limitations. 
Only  as  we  think  of  Man  as  emerging  from  the 
bodies  of  sphinx,  centaur  and  satyr  can  we  under- 
stand this  "Cry  of  the  Human,"  which  is  not  the  cry 
Mrs.  Browning  so  beautifully  voiced,  "Be  Pitiful,  O 
God !"  but  is  the  cry,  "Give  me  Freedom  from  condi- 
tions!" This  cry  man  has  ever  made.  It  comprises 
all  his  desires;  it  inspires  his  every  effort.  The  his- 
tory of  the  race  is  but  the  history  of  the  foetal  Man 
freeing  himself  from  the  animal  matrix.  From  ear- 
liest primitive  ancestor  to  the  latest  mental  scientist 
there  has  been  only  a  struggle  for  this  second,  this 
spiritual  birth,  when  the  Soul  shall  become  aware 


/f^      OF  THE  N^ 

f   UNIVERSITY    \ 
TWEl^TIETH  CEl^TimY  ^      ^^    .^^^y  23 

of  itself  as  the  Centerstance  around  which  revolves 
the  circumference  of  circumstance. 
When  this  condition  of  consciousness  of  himself  as 
Spirit,  is  reached,  then  Man  has  come ;  the  Soul  has 
reached  that  condition  pictured  by  the  ancients  as 
Nirvana,  or  Heaven.  This  is  the  condition  of  indi- 
viduality, and  is  found  only  when  Soul  is  conscious 
of  its  Mastery,  because  it  is  free  from  all  animal 
conditions.  Neither  death,  resurrection  nor  reincar- 
nation are  necessary.  Neither  can  they  bring  the 
condition.  It  comes  alone  through  the  unfolding  of 
consciousness  into  that  state  where  the  sense  of 
Being  is  so  complete  that  all  consideration  of  limi- 
tations, or  of  self,  is  lost  in  the  enjoyment  of  expres- 
sion. Tennyson  had  glimpses  of  that  state,  as  have 
saints  and  sages  of  all  ages,  and  also  modern  psych- 
ics and  mental  scientists.  He  describes  it  "as  a 
kind  of  waking  trance.  All  at  once,"  he  says,  "out 
of  the  intensity  of  consciousness  of  individuality 
the  individuality  itself  seems  to  dissolve  and  fade 
away  into  boundless  Being.  This  is  not  a  confused 
state,  but  the  clearest  of  the  clearest,  the  surest  of 
the  surest,  the  wisest  of  the  wisest,  utterly  beyond 
words,  where  death  were  almost  a  laughable  impos- 
sibility, and  the  loss  of  personality  seeming  the  only 
true  life." 

Civilization  is  the  record  of  the  cumulative  unfold- 
ment  of  the  race  toward  this  birth  from  the  animal 
into  that  condition  as  permanent  which  Tennyson 
described  as  occasionally  his.  As  the  sandstone 
strata  has  impression  of  wave  and  foot  print,  so  civ- 
ilization in  statute  and  literature,  in  temple  and 
statue,  keeps  the  wave  marks  of  the  SouPs  progress 
from  animal,  through  intermediate  forms,  until  this 
new  century,  when  it  is  to  be  emancipated  through 
the  new  birth. 
This  unfoldment,  this  pushing  Power,  has  ever  been 


24  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

from  within.  Kock  never  grows  to  tree.  Matter  has 
never  moved  up  from  polyp  to  Man.  The  same  chem- 
icals are  in  the  lower  order  that  are  in  the  human 
brain,  but  brain  is  not  there. 

In  my  old  Massachusetts  home  there  is  a  huge 
boulder  split  in  twain  by  a  growing  beech.  A  seed 
fell  in  a  little  crevice  of  the  rock.  It  grew  till  it 
needed  more  room.  Tree  or  rock  must  yield.  Life 
in  the  tree  kept  pushing  till  at  last  the  rock  gave 
way.  Was  tree  imprisoned?  Did  rock  oppress  it? 
No!  The  stone  had  not  changed,  but  the  tree  in  its 
growth  came  in  contact  with  conditions  that  were 
natural  and  appropriate  to  it  till  it  demanded  more. 
The  demand  from  life  in  tree  was  the  cause  of  the 
oppression,  and  not  the  limitation  of  the  rock.  Life 
is  a  manifestation  of  Omnipotence  in  higher  vibra- 
tions, and  lower  modes  of  motion  yield  to  higher. 
While  other  necessary  conditions  of  life  to  the  tree 
were  present  the  rock  must  yield;  tree  still  lives. 
Learn  this  lesson.  Our  demand  for  liberty  does  not 
mean  that  some  person,  thing  or  condition  is  con- 
scious of  oppressing  us.  It  means  that  the  indi- 
vidual has  grown  and  demands  more  room,  and  as 
unfoldment  must  continue,  conditions  must  give 
way.  The  moment  the  cry  for  liberty  arises  we 
know  that  Liberty  IS  already  born  in  the  Soul,  and 
as  sure  as  Life  is  God,  that  liberty  will  have  expres- 
sion. Canute  could  better  keep  back  the  sea  than 
any  parent,  teacher  or  government  can  keep  back 
the  outrushing  of  the  soul.  Attempt  to  repress  it  in 
its  chosen  direction  and  it  breaks  out  in  others. 
Crimes,  evils,  diseases,  rebellions  and  persecutions 
are  but  the  result  of  impediments  placed  against  the 
unfolding  Soul.  Freedom  to  act,  freedom  to  express 
in  some  way,  must  be.  Kock  or  tree  must  yield ;  the 
Soul  never  does;  it  is  outward  forever.  Conscious- 
ness of  power  begins  where  animal  limitations  cease. 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  25 

Man  starts  as  a  savage.  Liberty  arises  from  the 
expression  of  his  desires.  Each  individual  desires 
from  his  plane  of  unfoldment.  The  desires  of  the 
savage  are  as  legitimate,  and  therefore  as  holy,  to 
the  Father's  sight,  as  are  the  desires  of  the  Ma- 
donna. Each  will  still  cry  for  more  freedom  till 
there  is  no  consciousness  of  limitation ;  then  will  the 
self-consciousness  of  individuality  be  lost  in  its  Per- 
fection. "I,  the  imperfect,  adore  my  own  Perfec- 
tion/' says  Emerson.  This  Perfect  is  the  One  that 
cries  for  Liberty  and  finds  it. 

In  the  history  of  Human  Emancipation,  physical 
slavery  was  the  first  to  go.  This  slavery  was  in  its 
inception  merely  the  protection  of  the  weak  by  the 
strong.  The  law  of  Self-Preservation  created  every 
tyranny.  The  freedom  of  West  India  Slaves,  of 
Russian  Serf  and  the  American  Slave  was  only  the 
rifting  of  the  rock  of  the  protection  of  the  indi- 
vidual, from  the  outside,  that  the  individual  might, 
through  self-protection,  need  less  communal  protec- 
tion. It  is  a  step  toward  individuality.  But  only  in 
so  far  as  master  and  slave  were  emancipated  with- 
in, through  desire  for  larger  liberty,  were  they  really 
emancipated.  They  are  both  unfolding  still ;  freeing 
themselves  from  those  mental  conditions  that  made 
physical  slavery  necessary. 

Civil  liberty,  we  declare,  is  won.  We  have  embodied 
it  ideally  in  constitutional  law,  through  an  inspired 
document  which  says:  "Man  is  created  free  and 
equal,  and  endowed  by  his  Creator  with  certain 
inalienable  rights,  among  which  are  life,  liberty  and 
the  pursuit  of  happiness.''  This  is  ideally  perfect. 
But  where  is  it  in  the  actual? 

Look  about  and  see  if  Man  has  reached  his  ideal? 
Is  not  this  Nation  today  struggling  with  a  tyranny 
as  bitter  and  oppressive  as  ever  a  nation  did?  But 
till  recently  it  was  not  aware  it  was  enslaved. 


26  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

Were  the  Koman  Triumvirs  ever  more  tyrannous 
than  the  three  American  powers.  Capital,  Trust  and 
Monopoly,  coining  the  life  of  father,  mother  and 
child  into  gold,  in  factory,  mine  and  field?  Did 
Carthage  in  height  of  power  have  a  more  tyrannous 
reign  than  is  now  cturs  under  grafter,  briber  and 
blackmailer?  Did  ever  Persian  Shah  kill  with  more 
savagery  than  does  trade  with  its  per  cent,  and  its 
impure  foodstuff?  Did  ever  heathen  priest  show 
more  tyranny  than  modern  priesthood  in  its  denun- 
ciation of  liberal  thought  in  an  Ingersoll  and  Chris- 
tian Science  and  in  its  opposition  to  divorce?  Was 
ever  the  reign  of  Moloch,  the  fire  god  of  the  Phoeni- 
cians, worse  than  the  reign  of  the  Goddess  Fashion, 
with  her  dress  that  crushes,  entangles  and  enslaves 
and  late  hours  that  kill?  Behold  her  attendant  train 
of  insanity,  crime,  sorrow  and  disease,  joining  that 
great  procession  which  from  all  the  other  earth  hells 
make  up  a  great  body  of  our  civilization?  Was  ever 
anything  worse?  No.  Was  ever  anything  better? 
No!  Man  has  always  created  in  every  age  the  big- 
gest hell  and  the  best  heaven  possible  to  him.  All 
conditions  are  relative,  and  conditions  in  each  age 
are  the  best  possible;  they  represent  that  stage  of 
human  development.  Man  in  America  has  inter- 
preted ''Free  and  EquaP'  to  fit  his  development. 
Each  succeeding  age  will  do  the  same,  ever  writing 
larger  the  definition  of  Liberty.  What  is  tyranny 
now,  Avas  liberty  to  our  fathers ;  they  never  dreamed, 
were  not  capable  of  dreaming,  to  what  extent  the 
special  privileges  they  gave  aAvay  would  develop  into 
the  present  slavery.  The  Congresses  of  1861  to  1868 
did  not  dream  that  their  Acts  creating  National 
Banks,  for  refunding  bonds  and  destroying  the 
greenbacks;  and  State  Legislatures  in  incorporating 
financial  bodies  did  not,  could  not,  foresee  that  the 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  27 

emancipation  of  the  black  slave  was  to  result  in 
enslaving  the  whole  nation  to  the  money  power.  It 
could  be  no  other  way.  Enlarged  perceptions  will 
always  find  the  liberty  of  yesterday  the  tyranny  of 
today.  Otherwise  there  were  only  stagnation  and 
retrogression  of  the  partly  unfolded  Man  to  the  con- 
dition of  the  animal.  The  centaur  has  ever  made  the 
best  laws  and  governments  he  could,  but  he  could 
never  legislate  for  the  coming  Man.  When  that  Man 
comes,  then  all  old  conditions  will  be  done  away 
with.  Could  an  old  Roman  or  Scythian,  could 
Briton  of  Shakespeare's  time,  or  Teuton  in  the  time 
of  Charles  V.  be  placed  with  us  today,  he  would  find 
the  oppression  of  which  we  complain,  too  much  free- 
dom, and  would  begin,  like  those  modern  Reverends 
who  would  carry  us  back  to  the  Eighteenth  Century 
Sunday  and  Marriage  Laws,  to  complain  of  Twen- 
tieth Century  License. 

Humanity  is  never  to  travel  crablike,  backward. 
The  unfolding  Human  shell  will  never  retreat  into 
the  shell  of  the  past.  Liberty  is  relative,  and  its 
demands  are  always  without  precedent.  "Something 
Man  never  had  opportunity  to  do  and  be,"  is  its  cry. 
Therefore  all  the  various  phases  of  liberty  are  out- 
ward expressions  of  one  desire  of  the  Soul  for  ex- 
pression. "I  WILL  BE  MAN!''  it  cried  from  the 
body  of  the  Sphinx,  and,  pushing  himself  out  still 
more  in  his  desire  from  the  remnants  of  ancient  con- 
ditions, he  finds  only  a  still  larger  demand  impell- 
ing him  on.  Such  demands  presage  the  coming  full- 
ness, when  Man  shall  in  Freedom  be  content.  "I 
shall  be  satisfied  when  I  awake  in  thy  likeness,"  "in 
the  liberty  of  the  Son  of  God." 

The  liberty  of  the  wisest  reformer  is  but  a  step  of 
the  Coming  Man.  The  ideal  is  that  of  Man,  having 
aborted  the  breast  of  the  sphinx,  the  body  of  the 


28  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

centaur  and  the  legs  of  the  satyr;  Man,  freed  from 
"the  lusts  of  the  flesh/'  "from  the  excitements  of 
passion/'  and  "the  mania  of  owning  things'';  when 
he  shall,  through  the  travail  of  conditions,  be  born 
into  his  own,  and  know  himself  as  One  with  God  in 
that  kingdom  that  is  within  himself. 
The  Nineteenth  Century  of  the  Christian  Era,  which 
is  the  one  hundred  millionth  century  of  Man's  ges 
fating  era,  saw  him  freed  from  the  tyranny  of  natu- 
ral forces.  When  he  first  threw  stone  at  wild  beast 
he  broke  some  limitations  of  space;  he  reached  far- 
ther than  he  could  with  his  hand.  This  freedom  has 
extended  till  now  there  is  more  than  enough  food, 
clothing  and  shelter,  if  equitably  distributed,  to 
feed,  clothe  and  house  every  person  in  conditions 
equal  to  that  of  the  average  person  of  today.  Thus 
he  has  conquered  famine,  pestilence,  fire  and  flood, 
and  he  is  making  the  desert  blossom  with  rose  and 
fruit  tree.  No  matter  what  may  come  to  individ- 
uals, the  race  has  won  its  freedom  here.  The  race  is 
master  of  material  environment,  and  can  now  turn 
its  attention  to  the  higher  ideal.  The  Unfolding 
Soul  demands  new  worlds  to  conquer. 
I  have  seen  in  the  incubator  the  chick  with  its  head 
from  the  shell;  it  then  gradually  puts  the  whole 
shell  off,  and  I  have  imagined  what  its  first  sensa- 
tion must  be.  It  looks  out  in  wonder.  But  greater 
is  the  wonder  of  Man.  The  wise  Society  of  Psychical 
Research,  after  twenty-one  years  of  investigation, 
has  just  got  one  eye  out  of  the  shell,  and  is  looking 
in  wonder  as  it  reports  that  "out  of  the  immense 
amount  of  material  in  its  possession  it  has  come  to 
the  conclusion  that  we,  or  some  of  us,  at  least,  are 
in  something,  or  something  is  in  us,  which  does 
not  know  the  bonds  of  time  or  feel  the  manacles  of 
space."  This  something  which  does  not  recognize 
time  and  space  is  that  which  is  emerging  from  the 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  29 

centaur's  body  and  in  its  victory  over  the  material 
conditions  is  presaging  that  time  and  condition 
when  there  will  be,  in  words  of  Tennyson : 

*'A  warless  world,  a  single  race,  a  single  tongue; 
Every  tiger  madness  muzzled,  every  serpent  passion  killed; 
Every  grim  ravine  a  garden,  every  blazing  desert  tilled; 
Robed  in  universal  harvest,  up  to  either  pole  she  smiles, 
Universal  ocean  softly  washing  all  her  warless  isles." 

Through  all  the  millions  of  years  Man  has  been  thus 
incubating,  nursed  within  the  shell  of  matter  by  the 
animal  which  he  was  soon  to  leave  behind  him. 
"Tiger  madness"  and  "serpent  passion''  have  been 
the  forces  that  pushed  him  on,  and  till  "the  ape 
is  crushed  out"  and  "the  tiger  has  died"  there  will 
be  need  in  Man  for  these  passions,  because  they  are 
the  Universal  Power  which  he  is  to  individualize 
and  direct  when  he  enters  his  dominion,  "the  king 
dom  of  God." 

Man  is  still  in  the  swaddling  clothes  of  materialty, 
still  in  embryo,  but  out  of  the  homogenous  the  indi- 
vidual is  evolving,  from  God  the  Son  is  being  born. 
Minerva,  from  the  brain  of  Jove,  is  the  type  of  the 
Coming  Man.  Not  from  the  Heart  of  God,  not  from 
the  Love  of  God,  but  from  the  Brain  of  God,  from 
the  Thought  of  God,  Man  is  to  come.  "In  the  begin- 
ning was  the  Word" ;  but  Professor  Drummond  tells 
us  that  it  should  not  be  "Word,"  but  "Thought"— 
"In  the  beginning  was  Thought,  and  Thought  was 
with  God,  and  Thought  was  God,  and  without 
Thought  nothing  was  made  that  is  made,  and 
Thought  was  made  flesh  and  dwelt  among  us."  It 
still  dwells  here,  but  as  fast  as  it  changes  its  dwell- 
ing and  finds  outward  expression,  Man,  coining  out 
of  the  Brain  of  God,  is  leaving  the  embryotic,  the 
animal,  behind :  the  elements  are  hereafter  to  be  his 
willing  servants. 

Until  this  New  Era,  this  New  Emancipation,  Man 


30  THE  CALL  OF  TEE 

has  been  the  child  of  earth,  and  the  prayer,  ^^May 
thy  kingdom  come  on  earth"  means,  come  to  this 
bodj'  as  it  comes  to  me  as  spirit.  ^^May  I  manifest 
my  spiritual  supremacy  while  incarnate"  is  this 
prayer  we  were  taught.  And  while  thus  enslaved  to 
matter,  we  are  the  slave  of  circumstance;  the  slave 
of  the  Universal;  but  when  the  Perfect  comes,  that 
which  is  imperfect  is  done  away  with.  Therefore, 
in  the  New  Era,  I  the  perfect  become  my  Perfect. 
There  is  a  form  of  tyranny  which,  much  deplored,  is 
still  as  necessary  as  is  the  governor  of  the  engine. 
Its  name  is  Authority.  It  is  ^^the  tyranny  of  the 
dead."  "Let  the  dead  bury  its  dead,"  said  he  who 
taught  us  of  the  Final  Emancipation.  Authority  is 
a  wonderful  power,  but  as  valuable  as  wonderful, 
for  it  is  corrective,  and  develops  the  governor  of  hu- 
man conduct — Self-control.  Pressing  against  the 
barriers  of  the  past,  the  Soul  cries  ^'More !"  and  like 
an  athlete  gains  strength  by  freeing  itself,  only  to 
find  another  and  another  barrier  across  its  path, 
till  the  last  ditch  is  spanned,  and  the  last  barrier  is 
leaped,  and  there  is  no  circumstance  that  is  not  will- 
ingly accepted  as  already  mastered  as  it  comes  in 
view. 

This  sweeping  away  of  some  limitation  we  term 
progress.  It  is  the  objective  manifestation  of  the 
unfolding  soul.  The  child  clings  to  Mother's  hand 
till  it  can  walk  alone ;  so  man  clings  to  the  mother- 
hand  of  the  past,  till  he  can  think  and  act  alone.  He 
says,  ^^What  man  has  done  I  can  do,"  till  he  learns 
to  say,  "What  man  has  never  done  I  can  do."  For 
this  new  Emancipation  finds  its  warrant  in  the  lim- 
itless possibilities  of  Man.  The  first  inscription  on 
the  banner  of  the  New  Emancipation  is,  I  AM  DI- 
VINE. No  matter  what  may  be  the  language  em- 
ployed, the  Principle  in  every  New  Thought  cult  is 
faith  in  the  divinity  of  the  Human  Soul.    No  other 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  31 

declaration  is  needed  by  this  Federation  than  the 
Affirmation,  ^^MAN  IS  DIVINE  AND  LIVES  HIS 
DIVINITY  HERE  AND  NOW !''  Faith  must  be  lo- 
cated somewhere.  Heretofore  it  has  been  located  in 
some  transcendent  deity,  in  what  Carlyle  calls  an 
"absentee  God/'  now  "the  kingdom  of  God  is  within'' 
and  faith  has  recognized  Man  as  God's  viceregent. 
"I  AM/  means,  I  am  all  God  can  be  at  one  time  in 
human  form,  and  during  all  eternity  the  all  of  God 
will  be  made  manifest  in  me.  What  God  in  irie  is, 
no  one  knows,  nor  can,  till  I  have  manifested  it.  and 
since  God  is  infinite,  I  am  to  trust  His  infinity  to 
manifest  today  that  which  the  day  needs.  Fresh 
manna  for  this  the  26th  of  September,  1905.  and 
trust  that  there  will  be  fresh  manna  for  the  27th  and 
28th  and  29th,  and  all  the  rest  of  the  chain  of  days 
as  they  come  into  human  view.  For  this  reason 
the  "Tyranny  of  the  Dead,"  and  the  mace  of  Author- 
ity, have  no  power  over  him  who  has  found  the  New 
Emancipation.  For  him  the  grave  has  no  message, 
and  the  unborn  no  command.  I  AM !  And  from  the 
one  central  source  through  Soul,  I  am  supplied  and 
guided.  From  all  that  was,  and  all  that  shall  be, 
I  am  free.  I  AM  NOW!  "Beloved  notv  are  we  sons 
of  God!"  and  it  doth  not  appear  what  we  shall  be; 
but  the  God  I  am,  will  reveal  itself  at  the  proper 
time,  is  some  notv  when  it  is  read} ,  and  will  so  con- 
tinue to  reveal  itself,  as  the  fullness  of  the  day  re- 
quires. 

This  consciousness  of  Divinity  is  my  emancipation 
from  all  fear.  The  past  does  not  haunt,  and  the  fu- 
ture does  not  daunt  me.  I  have  neither  regrets  nor 
hopes;  I  have  neither  remorse  nor  prayers;  I  con- 
sider neither  heaven  nor  hell.  I  am  freed  from  all 
these,  for  I  am  now  Eternity!  I  am  notv  Immor- 
tality. I  am  now  Heaven  when  I  choose,  and  I  am 
hell  when  I  do  not  know  enough,  or  am  not  potent 


32  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

enough  to  keep  it  out  of  me.  No  power  but  Self,  has 
dominion  over  me.  Freed  from  fear,  I  have  no 
devil  and  have  no  need  of  savior,  for  all  these,  I  am! 
These  words,  ^"I  AM !"  are  on  our  banner.  They  are 
our  shiboleth  of  Victory.  They  are  the  key  to 
Heaven,  and  the  salvation  from  hell.  I  AM!  What 
am  1?  No  tongue  can  tell.  What  is  God?  T  am 
that  which  was,  is,  and  shall  be!  I  am  that  which 
no  man  can  tell,  even  when  the  heavens  are  rolled 
up  like  a  scroll  and  there  is  not  even  an  angel  to 
proclaim:  "Eternity  is  no  more!"  Enough  that  I 
am  conscious  that  T  am;  that  daily  does  my  con- 
sciousness of  my  Self  so  increase  that  I  will  not  ques- 
tion my  power  to  be,  in  any  direction,  that  which 
I  desire  to  be. 

Emancipated,  the  petty  annoyances  of  life  pass 
away,  and  I  am  subject  to  nothing  material.  My 
body  is  not  subject  to  disease  or  death.  I  am  not 
subject  to  the  need  of  houses  or  lands.  I  need  no 
money  or  friends,  for  I  am  all  these  and  more.  I 
am  daily  coming  into  a  larger  consciousness  of  my 
relations  to  these,  and  when  I  know  enough  of  my 
possibilities  as  the  Son  of  God,  I  shall  draw  to  me 
not  only  that  which  enables  me  to  manifest  all  Man 
ever  has  but  that  which  man  never  has  dreamed  of 
being. 

"Dare  to  dream  what  no  mortal  ever  dared  to 
dream  before,''  but  also  dare  to  realize  that  dream. 
For  I  am  BEING,  and  all  that  ever  can  be,  slumb- 
ers in  me  as  song  of  bird  in  the  egg.  1  will  not  limit 
my  possibilities  by  so  much  as  a  definition. 

Aye!  The  New  Emancipation  has  freed  me  from 
the  tyranny  of  definitions.  I  no  longer  try  to  tell 
the  untenable,  to  define  the  undefinable.  I  answer 
no  questions  as  to  whence,  I  came,  what  I  am,  or 
where  I  am  bound.  I  think !  I  am  here !  i  am  bound 
no  where  for  I  never  came.    I  AM.    The  recognition 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  33 

of  Being  enables  me  to  enter  each  day  into  a  larger 
recognition,  as  I  sa}^,  I  AM ! 

But  that  I  may  have  deeper  life  I  will,  in  recogni- 
tion that  I  am  Life,  affirm,  I  AM  LIFE.  That  I 
may  more  fully  recognize  myself  as  Power,  I  will 
affirm,  I  AM  POWER.  That  I  may  more  fully  un- 
fold as  Love  and  Truth,  I  will  affirm,  I  AM  LOVE 
AND  TRUTH,  and  in  these  Affirmations  I  have  but 
to  open  my  mouth  and  the  Lord  within  fills  it. 

**Love  the,  I  AM, — is  Lord  within 
Daily  he  brings  mine  own  to  me," 

is  my  constant  Affirmation. 

But  when  you  ask  me  why  I  so  affirm — I  am  emanci- 
pated and  cannot  tell  you.  When  you  are  emanci- 
pated you  will  know  and  will  not  ask  because,  YOLT 
ARE!  I  AM!  I  let  that  which  I  am,  live,  think, 
speak,  and  act  through  me.  I  understand  now,  what 
He  meant  when  He  said,  ^^Let  your  light  shine,''  the 
"Light  that  lighteth  every  man  that  cometh  into 
the  world."  Only  the  emancipated  know  this.  And 
no  man  told  them,  and  "no  man  gave  unto  them." 
I  let,  and  while  it  lives  through  me,  I  enjoy! 
Aye!  In  the  midst  of  pressing  financial  needs,  in 
midst  of  plans  that  press  for  material  expression 
and  I  know  not,  in  the  consciousness  I  now  possess, 
how  they  can  materialize,  still  when  conditions 
press,  I  proclaim  merely — I  am. 
Aye!  Were  I  standing  before  you  in  rags,  hun- 
gry and  friendless,  I  would  still  proclaim  my  Divin- 
ity and  cry.  All  God's  is  mine!  And  though  T  may 
find  no  meat,  no  cash,  no  friends,  it  is  not  because 
I  do  not  possess,  not  because  others  have  that  which 
is  mine,  but  because,  like  a  crying  babe  in  his  home 
of  parental  love  and  care,  I  am  ignorant  of  my 
possesions,  and  must  need  suffer  that  I  may  possess. 
Necessity  is  my  way  to  liberty.     My  emancipation 


34  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

comes  through  this  tyranny  of  MUST.  When  I  real- 
ize that  I  am,  and  that  I  possess,  and  that  this 
Must  is  not  the  command  of  the  King,  but  the  com- 
mand of  an  usurper,  then  I,  the  rightful  heir,  ascend 
the  throne  of  Consciousness  and  proclaim,  "I  AM!" 
Yes,  friends,  I  have  been  where  dollars,  friends,  rep- 
utation, all  was  in  seeming  slipping  away,  and  I  was 
alone,  alone,  alone,  naught  but  God  and  I!  'Twas 
then  I  grew.  And  if  you  are  worth  anything  to  the 
world,  if  you  have  any  emancipation,  it  is  because 
in  such  hours,  you  have  found  your  SELF.  "My  self 
and  I  and  naught  between."  Then  all  that  is  of 
earth  is  seen  of  no  value,  for  the  treasures  of  the 
Soul  are  all.  Come  with  me  into  the  garden  of  life, 
and  alone,  see  God  in  the  burning  bush.  All  dross 
consumed,  purified  in  the  fire,  you  know  yourself 
and  say,  I  AM. 

Our  edict  of  emancipation  is  not  from  czar  or  king ; 
from  president  or  people;  it  is  issued  from  the 
throne  of  God.  The  moment  the  Soul  finds  itself 
and  returns  in  allegiance  to  the  All,  it  is  free.  Out 
of  the  Homogeneous,  out  of  the  All  it  comes,  an  in- 
dividual, and  of  necessity  it  must  learn  to  say  "I," 
thus,  to  grow  into  the  consciousness  that  it  is  not 
that  which  is  not  itself.  But  fettered  by  the  con- 
sciousness of  the  Ego,  it  must  free  itself,  and  find  its 
way  back  to  the  All  again.  It  was  in  the  Ail,  un- 
conditioned, unconscious,  non-expressed.  It  goes 
back  to  the  All,  individualized,  conditioned,  con- 
scious, and  what  it  possessed,  as  the  unconditioned, 
the  unconscious,  belongs  to  it  as  an  individual. 
Thus  I  must  find  emancipation  from  the  limitations 
of  the  Ego,  and  not  be  content  with  the  "portion 
that  falleth  to  me."  I  must,  however,  take  that  por- 
tion and  go  into  a  far  country  and  spend  it,  that  I 
may  come  back  the  universal  and  find  that  "All  the 
Father  hath  is  mine !"    And  the  New  Emancipation 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  35 

is  freedom  from  limitations  of  parts,  shares,  por- 
tions, in  the  recognition  that,  All  is  mine  and  I  am 
all  This  Proclamation  is  the  SouPs  consciousness 
of  its  Self;  is  the  breaking  of  all  fetters;  is  the 
setting  open^  the  gates  on  the  four  sides  of  the  celes- 
tial city,  and  letting  the  Light  that  is  not  of  sun,  or 
moon,  flow  outward  upon  the  life  of  matter,  time 
and  space,  till  they  shall  be  no  more.  For  this,  came 
I  into  this  world  and  this  body,  that  I  might  real- 
ize that  I  am  a  conscious  expression  of  God.  That 
out  of  the  unindividualized,  I  might  be  individual- 
ized. Either  this  or  there  is  no  meaning  in  life.  If 
I  am  over  and  over  to  be  born  into  body,  and  then 
lose  consciousness  and  individuality  in  the  Univer- 
sal, then  Life  is  a  fraud,  a  cheat,  and  a  purposeless 
round  upon  an  Ixion  wheel  of  sorrow.  But  no,  this 
child  man's  explanation  does  not  fit  me.  I  see  Evo- 
lution of  thought,  and  from  the  accumulated  wis- 
dom of  the  eons  since  man  began  his  emergence  from 
centaur  and  satyr,  I  see  the  awakening  consciousness 
of  the  Immortal;  till  now,  O,  century  of  centuries! 
O,  century  of  Redemption!  O,  century  of  Fulfill- 
ment! O,  century  of  Human  Birth!  O,  century  in 
which  Man  finds  Himself  as  conqueror  bringing 
forth  the  kingdom  of  heaven!  till  now,  O,  century, 
out  of  the  Homogeneous,  out  of  the  Universal,  the 
Individual  has  arrived!  Out  of  God  Man  is  born; 
first,  last  and  forever! 

The  last  remnant  of  evolution,  the  last  shred  of  cre- 
ation, now  falls  away,  and  out  of  the  remnants  of 
sphynx,  that  lies  at  his  feet  Man,  the  Redeemed  and 
the  Redeemer,  stands  forth,  and  in  the  NEW 
THOUGHT  proclaims  his  Freedom. 
Till  I  learn  my  divinity,  I  am  subject  to  the  flesh 
as  schoolmaster.  The  pressing-out  process  of  desire 
is  one,  through  all  kinds  of  emotion.  That  pressing- 
out  process  began  when  the  first  savage  man  became 


36  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

conscious  of  Want.  It  was  in  him  like  the  need  of 
the  young  oak  in  the  flower  pot,  for  more  room  for 
expression.  The  oak  broke  the  pot;  man  out-grew 
cave.  He  has  been  outgrowing  conditions  ever  since 
because  he  grew  into  more  feeling.  As  he  felt  more, 
he  thought  more.  In  this  century  he  FEELS  as  he 
never  felt.  Well  savs  Frances  Ellingwood  Abbott: 
"Man  must  learn  to  think  more  profoundly,  or  else 
unlearn  to  feel !''  Out  of  this  necessity  for  profound 
thinking,  which  is  not  mere  investigation  and  spec- 
ulation, theorizing  and  reasoning,  but  THINKING, 
— has  come  the  New  Thought,  the  New  Emancipa- 
tion. "Beware  when  God  lets  loose  a  thinker !''  says 
Emerson.  Because  thinking  is  the  only  Human 
function.  Feeling,  sensation,  is  shared  by  plant  and 
animal,  and  probably  even  by  the  mineral.  But  sen- 
sation evolves  until  through  instinct.  Ideation  is 
born.  Ideation  is  Man's  prerogative.  Animals  Feel; 
Man  Thinks.  Animals  instinctively  act.  So  does 
the  partly  unfolded  Man.  Animals  automatically 
obey  the  Universal  Ideas,  and  so  does  undeveloped 
Man.  Animals  act  under  the  Thoughts  of  that 
which  is  not  themselves,  so  does  Man;  unconscious 
of  his  power,  but  Man  alone,  out  of  Universal  Ideas, 
creates  Ideals;  Man  alone  thinks!  Man  alone  is 
conscious  of  himself !  Man  alone  can  say,  I  AM ! 
Man  is  born  into  a  universe  of  sensations,  says  Pro- 
fessor James.  "Confusion  is  the  babe's  universe.  A 
multitude  of  organic  conditions  does  not  prevent 
the  consciousness  from  being  one  consciousness.  The 
babe's  consciousness  is  one  big,  blooming,  buzzing 
confusion."  The  babe  has  no  consciousness  of  its 
own.  It  possesses  all  God's  consciousness,  and  grad- 
ually becomes  aware  of  its  possession  of  this  con- 
sciousness. The  babe  has  no  feeling  of  its  own.  but 
possesses  all  God's  feeling;  but  out  of  this  universe 
of  feeling  it  differentiates  those  it  calls  its  own,  be- 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  37 

cause  it  recognizes  them.  Its  unfoldment  then  is  in 
proportion  to  its  recognition  of  its  separate  sensa- 
tion. Thus  as  Man  unfolds;  he  becomes  more  and 
more  sensitive;  while  from  this  increased  sensitive- 
ness, comes  the  need  of  profound  thinking,  that  he 
may  possess  as  Man,  consciousness  of  that  wisdom 
which  has  caused  this  unf oldment ;  may  possess  it  as 
an  individual.  Thus  comes  the  Man's  Spiritual 
birth.  It  is  full  of  travail.  The  birth  chamber  is 
filled  with  the  groans  of  pain,  the  shrieks  of  war, 
horrors  of  prison,  and  the  ravings  of  insanity.  There 
lie  all  the  wrecks  of  business,  politics,  trade  vice 
and  crime;  but,  they  are  only  the  Edenic  conditions, 
which  man  has  been  sloughing  off,  that  he  might  learn 
what  was  indeed  the  knowledge,  which  is  his  because 
he  obeyed  the  heavenly  vision,  and  ate  of  the  fruit 
of  tree  through  listening  to  the  voice  that  said,  "Ye 
shall  be  as  God  knowing  good  and  evil!"  The  re- 
sult is  worth  the  cost.  The  Heaven  of  individual- 
ity "is  not  won  at  a  single  bound."  The  conscious- 
ness of  the  power  to  choose  and  to  learn  of  himself 
through  choice,  needed  eons  to  bring  it  forth.  It 
has  come;  and  the  New  Century  opens  with  this 
new  proclamation  of  Liberty:  /  am  Spirit^  and  I 
am  conscious  of  my  divinity.  The  promise  of  Wis- 
dom^ under  guise  of  serpent^  is  fulfilled,  and  now  I 
^^ shall  not  surely  dieT 

The  bloody  sweat  of  Gethsemane  purifies  the  flesh 
so  the  light  within  shines  outward  upon  the  path 
of  unf  oldment,  and  Man  cries:  "Not  this  limited, 
walled  expression  of  Eden,  but  the  limitless  expres- 
sion of  thought  is  mine ;"  then  freed  as  a  bird  from 
its  prison,  the  last  Emancipation  has  come!  The 
last  enemy  is  conquered!  And  the  freed  Soul  cries, 
"Death  is  swallowed  up  in  Victory!"  Such  is  the 
New  Thought  interpretated  as  the  New  Emancipa- 
tion.    Man  has  eaten  the  "Last  Supper"  with  the 


38  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

mortal,  and  as  an  immortal  is  now  drinking  wine 
and  breaking  bread  in  "the  kingdom  prepared  for 
him  from  the  foundation  of  the  world/'  This  real- 
ization of  a  present  Divinity  and  Immortality,  is 
that  for  which  the  New  Thought  stands. 
Either  this,  or  we  are  pretenders,  battling  not  for 
liberty,  but  for  some  partial,  limited  expression  of 
Life.  We  are  either  taking  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven 
as  ours  by  right,  or  are  an  army  of  invaders  like  the 
Russians  in  China,  and  some  Japanese  of  Truth  will 
drive  us  back  and  say,  "Go !  and  sin  no  more !''  There 
will  be  no  indemnity.  We  are  either  entering  by 
invitation,  or  we  have  no  warrant  from  the  King  of 
kings.  When  He  proclaims,  we  are  Free,  and  no 
condition  can  hamper  us  more.  MAN  is  born.  In- 
dividuals may  succumb  to  disease  and  death,  but  the 
Race  is  born  into  Conscious  Immortality.  "Though 
the  individual  withers  .yet  the  world  is  more  and 
more?-' 

My  dear  co-workers,  I  firmly  believe  that  this  prin- 
ciple which  we  profess,  is  the  Savior  that  was  to 
come.  That  it  is  the  Principle  which  is  to  redeem 
the  world  from  all  present  ills.  It  is  as  real  a  Prin- 
ciple as  is  the  recognition  of  one  and  one  are  two, 
the  real  basis  of  that  calculation  that  weighs  stars 
and  measures  the  path  of  comets. 
We  have  the  perception  of  Truth;  Truth  has  no 
limit;  knows  neither  time  nor  space.  /  ami  truth! 
It  may  take  millions  of  years  for  the  majority  of 
the  race  to  perceive  this,  but  what  of  it?  Millions 
of  years  ago  some  primeval  ancestor  saw  possibili- 
ties for  himself  that  none  other  saw.  He  expressed. 
His  expression  has  become  the  instinct  of  the  race. 
So  this  perception  of  immortality,  however  crudely 
expressed  now  as  belief  of  an  immortality  in  the 
flesh,  but  which  is  truly  immortality  outgrown  the 
flesh,  will  some  time  be  the  instinct  of  the  race.  The 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  *  39 

one  Affirmation  that  will  nsher  in  that  "Promised 
day/'  which  comes,  not  to  numbers,  but  to  the  in- 
dividuals is— I  AM  SPIRIT!  To  this  realization 
this  crusade  of  New  Thought  leads  us.  Under  its 
inspiration,  Man  frees  himself  from  the  last  remnant 
of  the  animal  and  awakens  to  the  recognition  of  him- 
self as  Spirit.  We  cry  with  Tennyson : 
"Hold  thy  Scepter,  Human  Soul,  and  rule  thy  Pres- 
ence of  the  Brute!" 

If  the  New  Thought  movement  stands  for  this,  then 
I  stand  for  New  Thought.  But  if  New  Thought 
stands  for  less,  then  I  stand  for  more  than  New 
Thought.  But  my  conception  is,  and  ever  has  been, 
that  this  movement  through  all  its  cults  stood  for 
the  present  manifestation  of  the  Kingdom  of  the  All 
Good,  and  that  Man  as  a  manifestation  of  God, 
should  now  manifest  that  God-likeness.  I  am  sure 
every  one  of  you  will  say,  "Aye !" 
This  movement  stands  for  more  church,  more  state, 
more  business,  more  mechanics,  more  trade,  more 
fashion,  more  authority,  more  medicine,  more  doc- 
tors, more  preachers  and  more  lawyers,  that  Man 
may  outgrow  the  needs  of  them  all.  Only  by  expres- 
sion can  he  outgrow.  Let  him  express  along  his  in- 
stinctive lines,  till  he  finds  his  own.  He  must  have 
church  till  he  needs  it  no  longer.  He  must  have  doc- 
tor and  pills  till  he  needs  them  no  more.  He  must 
have  school,  book  and  teacher  till  be  leaves  them  be- 
hind; he  will  cling  to  parents  as  long  as  he  needs 
them  and  he  must  worship  a  Heavenly  Father,  till 
he  absorbs  that  Father  into  himself. 
We,  proclaimers  of  the  New  Emancipation,  are  the 
pioneers  in  the  world  s  last  advance  on  the  king- 
dom of  the  undeveloped.  On  our  banner  is  the  word, 
"Peace."  In  the  kingdom  of  God,  which  is  the  king- 
dom of  Man,  there  are  neither  "wars  nor  rumors  of 
wars."  These  are  echoes  from  the  kingdom  of  the 


40  '  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

animal.  When  the  ape  is  crushed  and  the  tiger  is 
dead,  then  from  the  eternal  stillness  of  the  Soul, 
comes  the  word,  "Peace." 

"Stand  still  my  Soul,  in  the  silent  dark 
I  would  question  thee; 
Alone  in  the  shadow  drear  and  stark, 
With  God  and  me." 

Ever  from  this  stillness  Soul  speaks ;  from  this  still- 
ness Man  thinks.  Outward  all  God's  blessings  flow; 
the  blessing  is  in  the  flowing.  The  inner  light  shines 
as  we  march  along,  an  army  of  redeemed; — of  self- 
redeemed,  self-saved,  self-reliant,  self-respecting  and 
self-assertive,  MAN-hood.  That  kingdom  of  heaven 
that  was  "at  hand,"  two  thousand  years  ago,  was  at 
hand  when  the  first  man  stood  naming  the  brute, 
and  has  ever  been  at  hand.  We  have  reached  for 
and  grasped  it  and  found  that  the  hand  extended, 
was  that  of  our  brother,  extended  in  Love,  we  have 
learned  that  Heaven,  Immortality,  Soul,  Manhood, 
are  included  in  that  word  Love.  I  am  human  because 
I  love.    I  am  immortal  because  I  love. 

''Life  is  ever  lord  of  death, 
And  love  can  never  lose  its  own." 

That  kingdom  is  the  Human  Consciousness.  All 
there  is  to  individuality  is  Consciousness  finding  its 
culmination  in  the  conviction  that  Life,  Love  and 
Truth,  are  Humanity.  All  the  other  forms  of  ex- 
pression, called  energy  or  force,  are — God. 
In  this  spirit  of  Love  is  the  Federation  formed. 
Formed  like  the  crystal,  by  no  arbitrary  rule,  but 
by  the  one  Law  of  Attraction.  We  stand  for  the 
freedom  of  the  individual,  not  freedom  to  live,  think, 
speak,  and  act  without  the  interference  of  king, 
priest,  government,  public  opinion.  No!  These  were 
won  long  ago.  With  these  we  have  no  more  to  do, 
than  we  have  to  do  with  disease,  poverty,  and  fail- 
ure.   These  things  belong  to  the  external  life.  "Suf- 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  41 

fer  it  to  be/  said  Jesus.  "Render  unto  Caesar  what 
belongs  to  Caesar."  When  you  need  the  dollar  for 
tax,  it  will  be  in  the  fish's  mouth  if  there,  is  no  other 
way  for  it  to  come.  When  you  need  protection  of 
statute  law,  it  will  be  passed ;  when  you  need  prison, 
you  will  be  put  there.  But  the  Freedom  we  stand 
for,  is  the  I-AM  Freedom, — freed  from  the  slavery 
of  circumstance.  I  am  free  to  choose,  and  to  be  that 
which  I  desire  to  be.  Thus  freed,  I  am  a  centerslance, 
and  the  All  is  my  circumference.  We  stand  for  the 
freedom  of  the  Soul;  spiritual  freedom,  which  no 
man  or  state  can  confer;  which  the  Soul  alone,  pro- 
claims when  it  has  burst  the  fetters  of  its  animal 
origin. 

In  this  Freedom  we  are  one.  Unity  in  the  Freedom 
of  Spirit,  in  Freedom  of  Principle;  in  Freedom  of 
Love  is  desirable;  thus  we  have  it.  It  is  impossible 
that  in  freedom  of  thought  we  can  be  one.  In  the 
fact  that  I  do  not,  and  cannot,  think  as  you,  con- 
sists my  individuality,  and  in  your  necessity  to 
think  differently  from  others,  lies  your  individual- 
ity. In  feeling — love — we  are  one;  but  when  feeling 
is  transmuted  into  thought,  we  are  many.  There- 
fore, when  asked  what  is  the  Thought  for  which  the 
Federation  stands,  we  answer — For  no  thought,  but 
for  Thought  itself.  We  stand  in  love  for  Unity-in- 
Love.  Universal  Love,  we  are  one.  But  we  also  stand 
for  divinity  in  expression.  From  creeds,  platforms, 
statements  of  belief,  we  are  free.  "What  is  Truth 
to  me?"  is  the  only  question  we  ask  of  ourselves, 
and  what  is  true  we  proclaim.  "Speak  the  Truth 
as  you  see  it  today  in  hard  words  if  need  be,  and 
then  speak  the  Truth  tomorrow  in  equally  hard 
words  though  it  contradicts  every  word  you  say  to- 
day!" says  Emerson. 

"I  wish  my  creed  like  by  beefsteak  fresh  every  morn- 
ing!" said  Robert  Collyer.    That  is  our  declaration. 


42  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

But  beyond  this  is  the  larger  freedom ,  the  freedom 
to  love  each  other^  and  all  the  world,  because  we  dif- 
fer in  perception  of  Truth.  Truth  is  one,  and  we 
are  one  in  Truth.  In  this  unity  of  spirit  we  meet, 
and  the  thought  of  the  beautiful  hymn  of  Samuel 
Longfellow  is  ours : 

**The  seekers  of  the  Light  are  one; 
One  in  the  freedom  of  the  Truth; 
One  in  the  joy  of  paths  untrod; 
One  in  the  Soul's  perennial  youth; 
One  in  the  larger  thought  of  God." 

In  this  freedom  the  New  Jerusalem  has  descended 
from  the  realm  of  the  Ideal  and  become  the  actual 
freedom  of  earth ;  freedom  from  pain,  sorrow,  pov- 
erty, envy,  disease  and  death;  this  is  proclaimed 
from  the  citadel  of  Humanity,  and  the  lion  of  Mam- 
mon lies  down  in  peace  with  the  lamb  of  Love. 
What  more  is  there  for  us?  God  is  just.  All  his 
promises  are  true  for  him  that  believes.  '^Come  up 
higher !''  is  the  call  from  the  Mount  of  Transfigura- 
tion. "Come  and  see  in  our  midst  not  only  Moses 
and  Elias,  but  Jesus  and  John,  Buddha  and  Confu- 
cius, Franklin  and  Paine,  Emerson  and  Whittier, 
Darwin  and  Spencer,  Beecher  and  Ingersoll."  But 
since  we  have  not  only  preserved  but  perfected  our 
humanity,  the  cry  leiigthens — "Come  and  see  also 
all  who  have  ever  lived  and  loved;  all  in  whose 
hearts  you  have  place,  and  who  have  place  in 
yours!''  We  live  in  that  realm  where  they  live  and 
one  with  God,  we  are  one  with  them  also.  In  our 
emancipation  they  rejoice,  for  as  we  enter  where 
they  are,  they  enter  into  that  realm  where  we  are, 
and  two  hitherto  severed  conditions  of  love  and 
thought  become  one.  Our  victory  is  their  victory, 
for  Heaven  is  perfected  only  in  the  redemption  of 
earth.    Only  when  the  angel  of  the  Resurrection  pro- 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  48 

claims  "Time  is  no  more/'  can  Man  enter  into  the 
immortal  life  that  is  his  here  and  now. 
Thus  our  success  as  a  Federation  is  measured,  not 
by  the  measure  of  earth,  but  with  "the  measuring 
rod  of  the  angel.''  Can  you  measure  the  radiations 
of  the  sun?  "His  light  has  gone  out  into  all  the 
world  and  nothing  is  hid  from  the  heat  thereof."  So 
with  the  Soul  vibrations  that  for  a  year  have  gone 
from  this  Federation.  They  are  more  wide  spread 
and  potent  than  those  of  the  sun.  We  are  a  "Cen- 
ter." Millions  of  people  have  looked  to  us,  felt  us, 
during  the  eleven  months  since  we  thus  united.  Mil- 
lions, wise  in  the  lore  of  the  New  Emancipation, 
have  concentrated  their  thoughts  with  ours  in  this 
broadening  circle  of  power  in  which  souls  of  Men 
are  ripening  for  Liberty.  We  are  today  a  physical 
center  for  all  radiations  of  the  good  and  wise  of 
earth  and  heaven,  for  by  the  nature  of  their  Being, 
they  are  with  us,  because  in  Love  ive  are  Free.  And 
this  is  our  power.  I  am  satisfied  to  be  with  you, 
more  satisfied  than  I  would  be  at  court  of  kings,  or 
with  millions  shouting  acclaim.  Better  satisfied  to 
be  with  you  here  as  a  center-stance,  amid  all  the  bus- 
tle and  confusion  of  the  mammon-life  about  us,  than 
to  be  a  victor  in  science  or  art.  There  is  more  sat- 
isfaction in  being  here  your  President,  because  this 
Federation  stands  for  the  New  Emancipation,  than 
were  I  to  stand  the  guest  of  all  parliaments  of  the 
world,  where  I  could  not  be  thus  free  in  Love  and 
Truth.  All  the  offers  or  orders,  insignia,  degrees 
and  offices,  are  worthless  when  they  are  looked  upon 
as  having  any  power  in  themselves.  God  decorated 
us  with  the  only  possible  decoration,  when  we  were 
conceived,  that  decoration  is  our  Individuality.  The 
only  office  I  can  accept  is  that  into  which  I  was 
born,  the  Office  of  God  Almighty's  Human  Lover, 
and  Truth-Teller.    Any  other  would  be  a  fetter  that 


U  -  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

a  freed  soul  could  not  wear.  Standing  here,  one 
with  you  in  this  fellowship,  where  there  is  neither 
great  nor  small,  where  all  in  Love  are  equal,  I  have 
been  for  a  year  the  representative  of  the  New  Move- 
ment. I  have  helped  our  cry  of  Universal  Freedom, 
and  spread  forth  our  New  Declaration  of  Indepen- 
dence. 

When  and  where  did  a  like  body  ever  meet?  Behold  a 
new  declaration  now  give  I  unto  you.  It  was  written 
two  thousand  years  ago,  but  buried  like  the  statues 
at  Pompeii  by  the  overthrow  from  the  old  human 
stages.  Man  listened  in  the  past  for  a  moment  and 
then  went  his  way,  consorting  with  animals,  but  the 
"Word"  has  lain  in  the  Soul  waiting  for  the  proper 
time.  Now  it  comes  forth  manifesting  its  freedom 
through  its  wealth  of  Divine  Love.  I  AM  LOVE! 
is  the  word  of  Man's  natal  hour.  It  is  the  greatest 
Affirmation  the  New  Emancipation  puts  on  our 
tongue.  I  AM  LOVE  DIRECTED  TO  MY  CHOS- 
EN END  BY  THOUGHT.  The  stanza  whitth  we 
sing, 

**God  is  Love," 

comes  as  the  fulfilling  of  the  Law.  There  is  no 
longer  Law  for  Man  but  Man  for  Law.  As  Sabbath 
and  State  are  for  Man,  so  Law  is  now  for  Man,  and 
Man  becomes  the  Law  unto  himself,  even  as  God  is 
Law  unto  his  Universe.  I  AM  LAW!  Can  you 
climb  thus  high?  I  AM  LAW!  Hence  forth  in  my 
freedom  Nature  obeys  me  for,  I  AM  LAW.  And,  I 
am  Law,  because  I  am  Love,  for  Love  is  the  fulfilling 
of  the  Law.  As  soon  as  I  recognize  that  I  am  Love, 
then  I  become  in  the  universe  Isiwless^  and  becoming 
Law  I  live  above  all  Law.  In  this  connection  do  3  du 
recall  Emerson's  most  wondrous  lines, 
''Into  the  fifth  himself  he  flings, 
And  Conscious  Law  is  King  of  kings." 

Love  Divine  hath  redeemed  me.  Divine  Love  hath 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  45 

freed  me,  Divine  Love  now  becomes  Me,  and  I  con- 
sciously live  as  Love.  Hence  I  live  as  Law. 
Yes,  I  am  content  with  this  Federation.  I  am  con- 
tent with  this  Convention.  I  have  withheld  this 
word  till  my  last,  that  I  might  cause  you  to  feel  the 
importance  of  our  place  and  to  know  how  tenderly 
I  loved  you  and  have  thought  for  you.  We  are  here 
in  the  name  alone  of  Love.  What  more  need  we?  I 
am  content  to  be  here,  for  we  have  the  right  spirit. 
Xo  great  show  of  power,  reputation,  wealth  or 
statesmanship,  has  drawn  us.  No  great  excitement 
has  brought  us  together.  We  came  because  we  love 
Truth,  and  it  has  set  us  free.  We  come  because 
we  love  each  other  and  Truth  more  than  we  love  any 
personal  end.  We  come  because  we  would  exchange 
sweet  joy  in  reunion  in  this  name  of  Love.  We  are 
here  in  the  only  power  the  Universe  knows,  the 
power  of  Truth.  I  AM  CONTENT ! 
Of  Millions  who  Take  the  New  Thought  name  but 
few  hundred  are  on  our  roll ;  and  out  of  these  hun- 
dreds but  few  are  with  us.  When  we  look  for  Unity 
among  those  who  claim  this  larger  view,  we  find  that 
most  have  been  content  with  enlarging  a  little  the 
boundaries  of  freedom,  and  putting  up  the  barriers 
of  a  new  name,  and  claimed  themselves  as  pre-empt- 
ors  of  the  common  realm.  Blessed  are  these,  for 
they  have  blessed  the  world  with  this  larger  view, 
even  when  they  stop  and  claim  themselves  as  found- 
ers of  a  new  faith.  Millions  need  such  an  half-way 
house.  But  we  can  no  more  bow  to  their  intellect- 
ual idols,  than  we  can  bow  to  those  of  wood  and 
stone  made  from  the  same  principle  of  Authority. 
Freedom  to  us  means.  Without  Limitation.  For  this 
reason  I  am  content  with  this  Federation.  It  is 
needed.  I  did  not  knov/  how  badly,  till  the  last  year 
has  revealed  it  to  me.  I  thought  there  was  really 
more  of  the  Spirit  and  love  of  Truth  among  New 


46  THE  CALL  OF  THE 

Thought  workers.  But  too  often  has  it  been  revealed 
to  me  that  love  of  Truth,  meant  love  of  my  Truth, 
and  Freedom  meant  the  limit  of  my  yard. 
This  Federation  comes  to  help  such  souls  out  of 
bondage  ;to  lead  them  from  their  partial  and  limited 
love  into  the  Universal  Love.  They  who  respond  to 
our  Call  are  among  "the  forty  and  four  thousands" 
that  come  up  to  the  Coronation  of  the  Emancipated 
Soul  as  King  of  kings. 

I  am  content,  few  as  we  are.  Truth  is  not  measured 
by  the  number,  nor  position,  nor  intellectual  ability 
of  its  adherents.  "Son  give  me  thy  heart!"  is  its 
command.  Not  to  the  intellect  comes  this  freedom. 
It  is  to  the  real  Man  imprisoned  in  his  belief  of  the 
past,  call  it  environment,  heredity,  or  karma.  These 
are  words  obnoxious  to  freedom.  I  am  freed,  and 
nothing  that  ever  was,  or  can  be,  hampers  the  ex- 
pression of  my  soul,  as  I  desire  to  express  myself. 
Predestination  or  Free  will?  This  Federation  has 
answered  this  problem  in  the  only  way  it  can  be 
answered,  and  that  is  by  living  free.  I  am  divine, 
means,  that  my  will  is  God's  will,  and  God  is  free. 
Human  Will  is  the  expression  of  God's  Omnipotence, 
My  only  limitation  is  my  knowledge  of  my  power 
and  my  lack  of  wisdom  to  use  it.  My  only  fetter  is 
my  thought  of  self.  /  AM  THAT  WHICH  I  THINK 
I  AM. 

This  Divine  Will  finds  in  me  its  power  to  know  it- 
self. Till  Man  came  it  was  not  conscious  of  Itself. 
And  Tennyson,  who  disliked  definitions  and  names, 
called  God  the  "Nameless"  and  speaks  of  Him  as 

''That  Love  which  is  and  was, 
My  Father  and  my  brother  and  my  God!" 

He  also  says,  "Free  will  is  undoubtedly  the  main 
miracle,  apparently  an  act  of  self-limitation  of  the 
Infinite,  and  yet  a  revelation  of  Himself  by  Him- 


TWENTIETH  CENTURY  47 

self."  This  is  virtually  saying;  God  could  not  be 
Man,  were  he  not  free.  And  we  find  closing  "In 
Memoriam"  with  these^words — 

"O  Living  Will  that  shall  endure 
When  all  that  seems,  shall  suffer  shock." 

And  in  that  word  ^''seenis'^  announces  his  position 
toward  the  external  as  that  which  we  teach,  that 
all  that  which  to  the  senses  seems,  is  but  illusion, 
while  behind  this  illusion  lives  that  eternal  Man, 
which  through  Love,  Truth  and  Will  is  the  Eternal 
Entity  of  God.  These  three  comprise  Man's  Con- 
sciousness. His  Freedom  is  won  only  when  he  be- 
comes conscious  of  himself,  as  one  with  all  that  is. 
^^My  Father  and  I  are  one,"  and  that  one  is  I. 
This  is  the  only  meaning  we  can  read  into,  or  out 
of,  that  greatest  thought  of  Jesus.  To  realize  this 
is  to  live  where  King  Arthur  lived,  when  all  his 
knights  had  failed  in  searching  for  the  Holy  Grail. 
To  him  who  remained  at  home  doing  his  duty,  came 
the  Realization  which  is  the  GRAIL.  Arthur  was 
Emancipated. 

"Let  visions  of  the  night  or  of  the  day 
Come,  as  they  will;  and  many  a  time  they  come 
Until  this  earth  he  walks  on  seems  not  earth, 
This  light  that  strikes  his  eyeballs  is  not  light; 
This  air  that  strikes  his  forehead  is  not  air, 
But  Vision — yea,  his  very  hand  and  foot — 
In  moments  when  he  feels  he  cannot  die, 
And  knows  himself  no  vision  to  himself, 
Nor  the  High  God  a  vision,  nor  that  One 
Who  rose  again." 


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